User blog comment:Gelsadra/New theory or nobody ever think of it?/@comment-26082987-20150207000145/@comment-967403-20150211210750

The interview used the word about. It's not definite it's 10 years after. This might be why he says "about" but then also stated Dante is nearly 40 in another interview. Seriously though, that's stretching it. I'll have to find that source myself though.

Concerning Deadly Fortune...it's not Bingo's version of the story. According to Capcom's website, it's a novelization of DMC4. There's no "real script" or "other version". The novel is actually, in a generalization, DMC4 with extra scenes. Those extra stuff was taken out because of unknown production reasons.....which is actually quite common with novels based on video games. And it doesn't matter If it was written by one guy (It's a novel....written a year after the game's release. It doesn't take a team to write it.....) and the story was made by other people. Capcom says on their website it's a novelization of DMC4. Also, that's not true. It was written by Bingo, his assistant writer Yasui Kentarou (official website). I'm surprised people don't mention that. Capcom also most likely, like every game novel ever made, looked at it to make sure it fit what they want before considering it a novelization of DMC4. Also, according to Wikipedia, Bingo wrote inside the book (Author do this sometimes), that those scene were intended to be in the game but were taken out for production reasons. If I had to guess why, time constraints. That happens sometimes with movies and games. Even the important backstory we wanna know gets taken out cause of that.

I'm just saying, I'm trying to look at this fairly. The more the I do, the more I feel when people pull up points, it's either a mass assumption that isn't actually there or people pull out the typical crap stuff that novels based on other popular medium do because they want to piss us off they're not perfect. I guess because other novels before it were retconned so people assume the newest novel, containing something they don't like, falls under the same category. It might as well be the new DMC2.